1978 Movies

Excerpt from a discussion between a man and a woman at a sawmill. An adaptation of a short story by Yuri Kazakov.

“The difference between a computer and people is absurdity”: this phrase, one of the first heard in Matheo Yamalakis’s film, is the key to a documenta...

Il-Man was separated from his parents at his young age and was brought up by his teacher, a Taekwon martial art trainer. After his teacher dies, he co...

Series of portraits of prominent personalities based on photographs, archive material, and interviews. In this episode, Dr. A.H.M. Romein-Verschoor, h...

"In a charming fantasy about the art of aimation, each character has a unique personality. Kathy is even invited to join her characters in ther cartoo...

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about peop...

Pinku from 1978.

Joe and Maxi is a film about Maxi Cohen's relationship with her father, made when she was 23 and after her mother died of cancer. This intimate and re...

Rafael Hastings superimposes several versions of the face of his friend, the musician and percussionist Manongo Mujica, showing the multiplicity of im...

This, the second film of the continuing autobiographical Duplicity series, is composed of superimpositions much as the mind "dupes" remembered experie...

Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train."

At the time the longest arts documentary the BBC had ever shown, this film is about the fascination and meaning of drawing; why we draw, what we draw,...

A documentary on the F.S.L.N. and its struggle against the Somoza dictatorship.

An extraordinary animated work composed of 99 still images. The bizarre story of the mechanized walking doll “Margaret” kidnapping and confining a fem...

“This film is assembled from a series of cuts conveying different moods. It is mostly composed of the simple action of seeing images alternately or in...

A sheep's kind feeling for a selfish cat develops into mutual selfless friendship during a sheep's illness.

Documentary about youth unemployment.

Emphasizes the unchanging nature of God amidst the world's changes, expressing gratitude for His constancy. A conversation reveals a vision of God tha...